Tuesday, September 11, 2007

My Heart Draws a Dream PV

Sorry that I keep posting short, because I'm very very busy with my study

This is the PV of the newest single of L'Ar~en~Ciel (laruku), My Heart Draws a Dream

enjoy


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Friday, September 7, 2007

Need for 2007 Fall anime

Lucky Star is about to end by 2 more episodes.. Claymore 3 more episodes.. Darker Than Black 5 more episodes..

I have watch SaiKano and Monster

If that 3 anime end, the only anime I could watch are: Naruto Shippuden, Bleach, and Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni Kai. (since lovely complex is somehow hiatus, I don't know, I should check first)

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Tuesday, August 21, 2007

L (Live Action Movie)


Another Death Note live action. It’s the prequel of Death Note live action.

Honestly, I have no idea what the story will be. (For information, please go to this link. It’s in Japanese, I don’t understand^^)

But hopefully, it’s better than the other Death Note live action.

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Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi



This anime is superb. There are a lot of fans crazy for this anime. First when I looked at this anime, I thought it’s a drama. But I was wrong. This anime is not really a drama. It’s a science fiction action drama! Yes, it’s science fiction. In animenewsnetwork, this anime has 8.87 for the rating, and that’s quite awesome.

Synopsis:

Suzumiya Haruhi is an eccentric and smart girl. She is actually pretty, but no one could talk to her because she is not interested in ordinary human. She is only interested in aliens, time travelers and ESPers. That’s why she’s always searching for mysteries and unordinary people by joining every clubs in her school. But because there is no such thing, like mystery and unordinary person, she is getting bored.

One day, amazingly, a boy named Kyon succeeded to talk and make a conversation with her. Because of Kyon, Suzumiya was inspired to make a club (that has no purpose) named SOS Brigade.

After finding a room, the club gets another member named Nagato Yuuki. She is not interested with the club. She is actually member of literature club, which room’s changed into SOS Brigade’s room. She joined the brigade so that she can read books in that room.

Then, Suzumiya recruited a pretty but clumsy girl named Asahina Mikuru. First of all she didn’t want to join, but after Suzumiya insisted (and after she saw Nagato), she decided to join in.

Then, Suzumiya recruited a transfer boy named Koizumi Itsuki. Suzumiya recruited him because Suzumiya found that Koizumi as a “mysterious transfer boy”.

Finally Suzumiya decided the purpose of the club: Finding mysterious things in this world.

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VEOH VS. Licensed Anime

Just to let you know, now veoh doesn't support licensed anime.

But there could be licensed anime, or maybe some member just uploaded them.

But After you download a licensed anime from veoh.com. I think you should move the file to another folder. otherwise the veoh program could delete it by the command from the server.

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Honey & Clover Live-Action Movie


Actually I have watched this movie after I watched the anime version. I like this movie (After I think about it, I think I just don’t like Death Note Live-Action Movie ^^;).

I don’t know if there is the sequel of this movie, because there are so much scenes that never show up in this movie.

Yes, there are some differences between the movie and the anime version:


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Monday, August 6, 2007

Lovely Complex Live-Action Movie


Finally I watched an anime-based live action movie which is better than the anime version.

It's Lovely Complex. Yeah, I just knew it not so long.

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Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Anime is just for kids


“Anime is just for kids“, “Anime is not for grownups”. Those are what people usually said about anime, especially in my country.

Well I don’t know if there are still a lot of people thinking like that. But I would like to tell you this: Anime is not just for kids!

What anime have they seen?? If they watch anime for kids like Doraemon, Bleach, Naruto, Dragon Ball, Crayon Shinchan, etc, no wonder if they thought that anime is just for kids.

Anime=animation=cartoon=for kids?? What is that?!?

Let’s see examples from anime that is not for kids:


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Monday, July 30, 2007

Evangelion Rebuild Trailer


On my last post I said that on September 1 2007 there will be the new movie of Evangelion (You Are [Not] Alone, and it's sequel, Evangelion Rebuild)

Well, if you haven't watched Neon Genesis Evangelion nor The End Evangelion, maybe you'll not that impressed.

But if you have watched it, maybe you'll recognize something.


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Neon Genesis Evangelion



In the year 2015, the world is in chaos. There are monsters called “angel” that going to destroy the earth. The chaotic situation begins by the second impact. The first impact’s considered to be the Hiroshima and Nagasaki incident. The second impact takes place in the year 2000 (Thank God it didn’t really happen) when a giant, unidentified object comes crashing down on Antarctica which resulted the death of half of the world’s population.

The Characters:

-Ikari Shinji. He is the 3rd child, pilot of the evangelion number 01. He is also Ikari Gendou (NERV commander)’s son. But he has a bad relationship with his father.

-Ayanami Rei. She is the 1st child, pilot of the evangelion number 00. Her expression seems cold and soulless. She is the most loyal person to Ikari Gendou. She never let anyone insults him. She uses to be Ikari Gendou’s tool.

-Asuka Langley Sohryu. She is the 2nd child, pilot of the evangelion number 02. She is half German, and half Japanese. She has a magnificent IQ. She has already graduated at a young age. Unlike Rei, she is very active and wild.

-Ikari Gendou. He is Shinji’s father and also NERV commander. He is definitely a mysterious person with complicated thought. He seems so cold and mean. But actually, he is a very caring person. He’s just lost.

-Katsuragi Misato. She works at the NERV as a captain. She used to baby sit Shinji. She loves beer^^



This anime is superb!! Even if you don’t like some kind of robotic anime, you’ll definitely love evangelion.

By the way, this anime is kind of deep and complicated. I myself needed 3 times to watch it before I understand the ending.

There are several Ending with some different stories/ending (but the same characters).

There are many stories of evangelion:
-Neon Genesis Evangelion (this series, the one you should watch first)
-The End of Evangelion (a movie, with a different ending)
-You Are [Not] Alone (A new movie. Alternate telling. It will be released on September 1 2007)
-Rebuild of Evangelion: 2.0 (sequel of You Are [Not] Alone)
-Rebuild of Evangelion: 3.0 (sequel of You Are [Not] Alone)
-Rebuild of Evangelion: Final (Sequel of You Are [Not] Alone)

There are also the manga:
- Neon Genesis Evangelion (alternate telling)
- Neon Genesis Evangelion: Angelic Days (alternate retelling, Spinoff of alternate universe in episode 26)


Overall rate: 4 stars! This anime is legendary. You definitely should watch this anime!
It's licensed since long ago. But you still can download it from http://www.veoh.com

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Monday, July 23, 2007

Lucky ☆ Star



Do you remember my last post? It’s about otaku. This anime will talk a lot about otaku. Actually in this anime there is only conversation. The characters will discuss about all unimportant trivial details (included every “phenomena” in anime or game) and analyze them with their limited logic. So it will be funny and stupid, we will also wondering why.

Since it is all conversation, I think I won’t give you a synopsis. I’ll just tell you their personality. And give you example of their conversation^^.





-Hiiragi Kagami. Unlike Tsukasa, Kagami is very studious. She is also “black-hearted” compared to her sister.




-Takara Miyuki. Maybe she is the smartest among the others. She always answers the other’s questions calmly.







Now I tell you the example of their conversation.

Conversation 1:
-Konata: Hey Tsukasa, where do you start biting into a chocolate cornet?
-Tsukasa: Hmm.. From the head I suppose.
-Konata: I see. By the way, which one is the head?
-Tsukasa: I think it’s the narrow end.
-Konata: But I think it’s the wide end. So why do you think it’s the narrow one?
-Tsukasa: Let’s see. I think it’s because it looks like a seashell.
-Konata: I see. But I think it looks more like a caterpillar.
-Tsukasa: Caterpillar?! (;;-_-)
-Konata: Well, I think now seashell is a better image than caterpillar. So how do you eat strawberry cake? Do you eat the strawberry first or last?
-Tsukasa: I eat the strawberry last
-Konata: Hmm.. I eat the strawberry first
-Tsukasa: But sometimes I got too full and one of my families got the strawberry (;^_^)
-Konata: That’s why you should eat the strawberry first.

Conversation 2:
-Kagami: Konata, you should pay more attention to your social skill and play less game.
-Konata: Hohoho.. Despite it looks, I have friends more than 100. And I used to party every night with my friends. So I don’t have any problem with social skill.
-Kagami: Really?! Wow!
-Konata: Yes. I used to go to the tower and hunt monster with my friends.
-Kagami: So it’s a game after all. (#-_-)

Conversation 3:
Konata: Let’s take off your glasses.
Miyuki: Hm?
Konata: Hmm.. It doesn’t look like that. (;;-_-)
Miyuki: Hm?
Konata: In manga when a character with glasses ( @_@) takes off the glasses it would be like ( 3_3)
Miyuki: Sorry that I made you disappointed (;;^_^)
Konata: But I wonder why it is like that…



Overall rate: 3 stars.


If you tired with your daily life (or maybe worse: playing game all night long), I think this anime is a great comedy for refreshing (and maybe for eyes-opening for the otaku too).
you could download it on veoh.com (http://www.veoh.com)


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Sunday, July 22, 2007

Otaku


What does otaku means? Although in English or internationally otaku means anime or manga fan, it could actually mean a person who has obsession or interest to any certain topic or hobby.

For example, even a person who has the obsession in everything about military is actually an otaku too. So yes, maybe otaku refers to geek or nerd in English.

There are types of otaku:


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Wednesday, July 18, 2007

NANA


Lately I have been watching this Anime. I never thought that this is a good anime. And when I was browsing on veoh.com, I found many uploader of this anime. So I download it, because I think if there are so many uploader, this anime must be a great anime. And yes, this anime is very good.


Synopsis:

This anime tells about 2 girls named Nana. Komatsu “Hachi” Nana (She’s called “hachiko” because she’s being like the other Nana’s pet or dog) and Osaki Nana.


On the train she meets Nana, and start to make friend. Contrary to Hachi, Nana is a very independent serious girl with her pride.

Nana is a former band vocalist. She used to sing with her band, Black Stones or BLAST, in her hometown. But one day the bassist of the band, who is also her boyfriend, Honjou Ren, left the band to be the guitarist of a famous band in Tokyo known as “Trapnest”. That makes Nana and Ren broke up. Now she moves to Tokyo too to be a professional singer instead to meet Ren.



First Hachi thought that she will live together with her boyfriend, but Shoji insists her to live alone and independently. Then Hachi starts to find an apartment to live in. But accidentally Hachi and Nana are interested in the same apartment. So they decided to share apartment and live together.


Hachi and Nana are two best friends. They will help each other to solve their problem, love and career.

But somehow, when our best friend’s falling in love with someone, we will also feel that we are being abandoned.



I rate it 3 stars.

If you tired watching animes which characters have super ability or super personality, I think you should watch this anime.

Btw, the songs in this anime are superb!
you could download it at veoh.com (http://www.veoh.com)


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Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Japanese Music


L'Arc~en~Ciel, X-Japan, Yellow Monkey, Siam Shade, Utada Hikaru, Younha, BoA, T.M. Revolution, Gackt, Nightmare, YUI, Home Made Kazoku, FLOW, Orange Range, etc

I'm crazy for japanese music (J-Rock, J-Pop, and the other J-).

I myself almost always listen to japanese music instead of my country music (but I listen it too).

Somehow, japanese music is just too addicting. I don't know how, I don't think like japanese, I can't speak japanese (but sometimes I could understand the meaning of some sentence because I watch anime a lot), but I'm still in love with japanese music.


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Monday, July 16, 2007

Death Note Movie Live Action






Now I think it’s not so bad to give you an anime related movie. Sometimes there are the non-animated movies versions for great animes that have great story and the story has completed.

First movie I want to share, Death Note.

While the anime version is incredible and worth masterpiece, the movie version is worth trash.
You can watch it on crunchyroll (but please don't xp)
overall rate: 0,5 Star



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Friday, July 13, 2007

Death Note TV Special: 3 Hours Director's Cut

We know that Death Note is completed already (you can download it on VIZ ( http://deathnote.viz.com/ )), but the ending is a little bit different from the manga (with Near as the third L, Roger as Watari, and Matsuda's theory (that near uses death note to control mikami action, etc)).

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Higurashi no Naku Koro ni




This time is a psycho one. How can an anime be psycho? Imagine that there are cute little girls (about 6-12 years old). You know all of them. You play with them everyday. Imagine that you are new guy on that village, and you hear about some fishy rumors and you end up with suspecting your friends. Imagine that since the day you suspecting your friends, they always bring a HUGE knife, but they said that they still want to be your friends and don’t want to lose you, while they’re STILL carrying the knife. Imagine that you could be stabbed from your back anytime.


And then, imagine that you kill them by smashing their head with baseball stick!


Synopsis:




-Furude Rika. She is younger than Keichi. She is a member of the priest family. She is just so cute, but sometimes she is like another person, saying something deep and mysterious.



-Houjou Satoko. She is Rika’s classmate. She is a naughty cheerful girl. But it seems she had some incident regarding his brother, Satoshi.



One day, Keichi figures out that there was an incident in that village. A man was mutilated, but his friends don’t tell him the truth about it. And there is also a curse by Oyashiro-sama, which curses everybody who leaves the village. And every year there is always some people who are spirited away during the Watanagashi.

Keichi is very confused, because his friends are definitely hiding something. Then a police officer comes to him, and asking for information regarding the incident and the curse. He also tells Keichi about the background of his friends, and tells him to be careful.

That makes Keichi scared and cautious. He started to suspect his friends, and put the worst scenario that he would be killed. So he should gather information, and keep himself safe.



I rate this anime 3.5 stars.

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni is an anime with new genre, because it mixed loli anime with thriller.

This anime will end by 4 episodes, but it will start all over again with the same setting, the same time line, the same character, but with a different scenario. When we watch this anime, we should gather information and think about the fact so that we know the truth of that village’s history and about oyashiro-sama’s curse.

Sorry that I couldn’t give you much synopsis, because it will end up as a spoiler. But this is a great anime. Watching it makes me fall into the darkness. It breaks my heart seeing that cute girls to be cold blood killers or victims.

You can only watch it on crunchyroll ( http://www.crunchyroll.com ) or veoh.com ( http://www.veoh.com ), because it’s licensed already.


By the way, lately the sequel of this anime is released, titled “Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai” , But you wouldn't understand unless you watch Higurashi no Naku Koro ni (without Kai) first, so enjoy^^

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Wednesday, July 4, 2007

Lovely Complex



Lately I have been watching this anime. Somehow I just love drama comedy anime like Honey & Clover, Ouran High School Host Club, and this one, Lovely Complex.


Synopsis:

Koizumi Risa is a very tall girl. She is always having bad luck with love because her height. She hadn’t gone for a date in her life. One day, she should take the summer class because she was dozing off on the ceremony. On the summer class she saw a boy named Suzuki. He is taller than she is. She is fallen for him instantly.


Contrary to Koizumi, Ootani is very short. He is always called as midget. He is quite popular actually, but he seems to have problem with love too.

So they all go to the pool, but they haven’t succeeded because of their height. But they haven’t given up. They make a bet who will find a girl/boyfriend first.

Although Koizumi and Ootani always fight over small things, they are actually best friends because of their personality. But that friendship could be love.



I rate it 2 stars.

I like this anime because I love to see how could they fall in love, and see how their height could be a problem (because I don’t have problem with my height^^)

You could download it from animesuki ( http://www.animesuki.com ).

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veoh.com


Well, like I said before, Darker than BLACK is already licensed, it would be difficult to get the anime by downloading it, and then I found this site, veoh.com ( http://www.veoh.com ).

On veoh.com you can watch animes with streaming or by downloading it.

If you want to watch it by video streaming, you can simply watch it, just like you do on youtube.com.



But if you want to download it, you should first register for it. Don’t worry, it’s free.

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Darker than BLACK's licensed

hmm...to put it netral, let's just say Darker than BLACK is already licensed

therefore you guys, who usually download it for free, will have a little trouble finding it, since animesuki.com has deleted all of the torrent.

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Saturday, June 30, 2007

Is Fansub Legal

hohoho.. that is interesting.. we, the anime fans, usually obtain anime by downloading it for free (If you buy or rent the original DVD, I salute you^^). Is that legal?

actually it isn't legal. But sometime it is not a problem at all. why? Because the company that has the copyright doesn't complain about it.

Why??

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I decide it+ first news: DMC licensed

I decide that I will write news related with anime too..

well,, I'll try my best to provide you witheverything related with anime

ganbaru

ok.. instead leaving this post shallow and meaningless, I'll give you a (simple) news.


Devil May Cry is licensed by ADV.

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Ouran High School Host Club


Ok, those are serious animes (except Honey & Clover). This time I’ll give you a very funny anime. Ouran High School Host Club.

Synopsis:

Fujioka Haruhi, a normal student in a very prosperous high school who always studies hard. Haruhi is actually popular because Haruhi is the only commoner in that school.


There are 6 members of the club (exclude Haruhi):

-Suou Tamaki. He is the leader of this club. Although he has the leadership skill and is loved by his member, he believes too much to people. But he is definitely a good man with a simple and unique personality. He is the prince type host, the king, and the father of this club.

-Ootori Kyouya. He is the cool type host. Kyouya is very smart. He should study hard to make his father satisfied. He is the manager of this host, he take care the accounting part. He is also the "mother" of this club.


-Hitachiin Hikaru and Hitachiin Kaoru. These twins always sell brotherly love for their customer. They are very naughty and make everything as their toy. They seem always cheerful, but they actually have problem because no one has recognized them as hikaru or kaoru because they are very identical.

-Haninozuka Mitsukuni (a.k.a Honey). He is the lolishota type host (lolishota means young boy under 17 who is very cute). He likes to eat cake and something sweet. Despite it looks, he is very good at martial art.


-Morinozuka Takashi (a.k.a Mori). He is the wild type host. He always baby sits Honey and protects him. He is very good in kendo.


Despite their look, they have their own rich people problem. Haruhi seems to be their savior. Vise versa, these rich people want to improve their relation with Haruhi, but it seems like a different dimension, dimension of the commoner.


I’ll rate it 3 or 4 stars.. well , it’s 3 ½ stars^^

This anime is super funny. There is a lot of hyperbolism.

You should definitely watch this anime.

You can download it at everyanime ( http://www.everyanime.com ). (the torrent is very slow, there are just few seeders since it isn't new anime)

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How to Download Torrent

Downloading it may sounds simple, but there are people who can't. well, a direct download or online storaging (megaupload or rapidshare, etc) are no problem I think. but torrent might be a problem for some people (no need to shame, we were all beginner). 1. Download bitcomet http://www.bitcomet.com/doc/download.htm
2. Install it
3. Download the torrent file, for example in http://www.animesuki.com/ (if you use Opera browser, it will download automaticly, so the bitcomet will be useless.. so don't download the torrent file with Opera (well, I'm a newbie too, so correct me if I'm wrong))
4. open the torrent file with bitcomet, and decide where would you save the file.
5.start download

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Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Claymore


Phew.. I want to share this anime.. I can tell you the interesting part of the story, but it will end up as a spoiler because it has a flash back for 4 episodes.

Hmm.. how about this? I’ll tell you the main story without tell you when, or who of those scene. Ok?


Synopsis:

There is a time when villages were attacked by monsters called “Yoma”. Yoma can also disguise as a human. Yoma like to eat human’s guts.



One day he met a boy named Raki. Raki has lost both of his parents because a Yoma killed them, because of that Raki has no one to live with. Then Clare takes him as a cook. Raki accompanies Clare through her missions.

Clare’s past:

Every Claymore was once a human, so was Clare. She has no one to live with, because she had lost her parents, since then she was a Yoma’s toy. One day a Claymore named Teresa slashed the Yoma. Since that day Clare clung to Teresa. Teresa was actually the number one Claymore (the strongest Claymore).

But one day Teresa killed human in order to protect Clare. Claymores have a rule that they must not kill human regardless the condition, those who violate this rule should be executed. But Teresa wanted to stay live for Clare. That makes the organization sent number 2 to number 5 to hunt for Teresa’s head. Of course they didn’t make it.

But the situation changed when 1 of them turned into Yoma and kill the other except Clare. In order to take revenge, Clare decided to be a Claymore.


I rate this anime 4 stars.

Before you download it, I want you to know that episodes 1 to 4 are kind of boring. Well, it’s not boring actually, but filler-like episodes. They are just ordinary missions. But since it’s about the main story, episodes 5 above are superb! You should definitely watch this anime!
You can download it from torrent (animesuki.com) and everyanime ( http://www.everyanime.com ) (it's direct download^^ so it will be fast)

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